A blog by Cathy Holtom, an English artist living and painting in Sicily.

Tuesday, 21 September 2010

Dragonfly

Ink and coloured pencil

I found this beautiful dragonfly (unfortunately dead), it's transparent wings made beautiful shadows on my garden table in the sun. It's missing a few bits because when I found it the ants had already got there before me, but I was still able to examine all the delicacy of those wings.

It's incredibly beautiful! That combination of ink and (light) color perfectly conveys its delicacy. I thought it was watercolors first - you're so good at making the pencils "blend", it's all so smooth and harmonic. A wonderful drawing!